I mainly do solo questing and exploring so performance hasn't affected me much at all.
I'll probably keep on playing.

I stick with it, eventually they'll re-power nerfed skills. I just roll with the punches lol. This is home, even if the roof is a bit leaky...

Love the game, dislike PvP. If the raps situation doesn't change might be time to go back to Classic for a while. Being generally disappointed with Greymoor has not helped matters.

I'll likely start spending time on other games and doing other things in life. I'll probably get on daily to do my writs, and once a week I'll hit surveys and maps.

Considering the cost of getting traders has been rising, all my trader guilds are starting to panic and either raise their weekly tithe or ask for "better" items to be listed, so I suppose I'll drop down to one trader guild rather than many. I may end up having to downgrade to a smaller guild that can't get a weekly trader. My weekly tithe plus donations won't happen if I'm not in to farm a lot, after all.

I'll miss visiting with people. None of my other games are MMORPG's. All the other stuff I'd do at the house is crafty or artsy and you don't do that in crowds. Hey, nothing we do is in crowds anymore, and won't be for a while.

**shrug** I don't have to like it. But I doubt I'll leave, TBH. I enjoy this game too much. :P

The only thing keeping me in ESO currently is my amazing and wonderful guild, which i have been randomly invited to.

I've been a main pvp-player ever since the Warden came out. It was such an amazing and fun experience, that i did not do anything else besides playing PvP in my spare time. I came back from work and immediately logged in to participate in some high quality battles that occured throughout the day. Oh boy there was fights. Sometimes defending for an hour straight just to win on the last flag it was such an epic feeling. The only performance problem back then was long loading screens when using the Transit shrine. There was almost no lagg at all in Cyrodiil, even when 2 major factions were clashing on to each other.

After meeting a few wonderfully people which i unfortunately don't have contact with anymore, as they stopped playing i went to do PvE occasionally in order to help progress in CP and just to have so fun at night, when the campaigns are dead. It lasted a while and things began to change. I was getting long loading screens, unable to participate in any form of gameplay due to huge server crashes and other issues. Then Elsweyr dropped and i couldn't play for 2 weeks straight. After this i went back to Cyrodiil for the first time in 2 months or so and it was a huge Slideshow. The Ping wasn't bad at all, no it was FPS. On major battles you'd have 1 FPS and people just teleported around. It was unplayable. Me and my friends parted ways and i stopped playing for a while until the next Chapter came out. I eventually did a lot of PvE content and completed the majority of Tamriel, before loosing interested, as PvP is what really made me happy.

I stopped playing again for over half a year.

When i returned not long ago i immediately started playing Cyrodiil. I was very happy, that the FPS and Performance got so much better that i barely noticed that lagg at first. It was during my first prime-time battle that i thought hmm this sucks. As ping lagg was a new thing for me to experience in eso i thought this was on my side. I also had a new Router. I bought another new Router and a LAN cable. Unfortunately the Team did a great job at silencing these issues, which could have saved me some money. I still occasionally play Cyrodiil mainly at Lunch time, when there is actually somebody to fight, without the laggs being too terrible, but for the most part i'm just standing around idle in Craglorn or helping out my guild on various content.

I'm much looking forward to the new Chapter and i sincerely hope, that this will help the lagg in Cyrodiil. I really doubt it, due to the amount of increased house items that will now strain on the server, but i have a dream you know. I've already made out a new promising MMO that will be dropping soon. If this doesn't work out with the laggs i won't be returning back to ESO ever again.

I hope that answers the question.

I'm way too casual to get that much in a tizzy about the performance in order to consider the next update as an ultimatum to whether or not I continue playing. The game has been stable enough for me and I'm invested way too much time and money to just drop it if the next update doesn't magically fix everything. I'm going to keep playing whenever I want to.

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It is just sad that they are so desperately trying to hold onto this archaic engine - meaning, that the balances they are proposing are to keep it within the confines of what it can still “physically” do... instead of what is SHOULD be, or what new progressive changes can be made.

S.

I'm of the mindset they should do what FF14 did, aka close the servers, redo everything, and reopen stuff with a new engine and all (disclaimer: I don't know why FF14 did the whole Realm Reborn thing, if it was engine issues with the previous game or what, I only know they did it). There's so much going wrong with things as they are, despite all the performance stuff that's happened so far, and from what I've heard from people who code, trying to work with code you weren't originally part of is a huge pain. That's what we have going on now, new devs working on code they aren't familiar with. It'll probably keep happening as the game grows older but geez, at least move ESO to an engine that can handle things better if nothing else.

And yes, I know a lot of people would be against this because of the fact that I'm pretty sure all progress would be wiped, but I honestly think I'd be willing to give that up in exchange for a game that actually functions properly.

FF14 was redone due to the coding, high spec requirement, especially the game engine in that it doesn't allow over large amount of players in one area without lagging big time.

I played FF14 from the last 6 month of the original launch up until Shadowbringer expac. From A Realm Reborn (when it was re-released) its always been smooth sail from there. Square Enix I dont think uses Megaserver but multiple server within regional data center such as NA, EU, JP.

Infrastructure wise, ZOS can't compared to Square Enix, and I get more frustrated with ESO compared to FF14 (FF14 rarely frustrated dont remember when I ever was), but ESO has cool armor traits and mechanics which I think with so many players along with other features its hugging up resources within the datacenter. Add to the fact you can use Add-ons on ESO which I do quite a few add-ons on my PC.

ESO has some really stupid options and or doesn't implement an QOL example where you can keep the keyboard/mouse UI while using Gamepad. Something I would love to have implemented not sure why ZOS does not...

Kinda like how Apple Iphone works compared to Android where you think, really Apple? Simple options like that isn't included?

But yea, ESO has a lot of problems for an MMO that sometimes I call it a shovelware game. On top of lag, character randomly get stuck and or can't move left or right via direction gamepad, buy crowns etc is frustrating. FF14 has none of that issue. Butter smooth and alot of mounts you can get in-game.

But the positive sides of ESO is they have unique mechanics and options in the game that FF14 and other MMO doesn't have.
Although having said that, ESO Plus, having to buy Crowns, gated items/mounts etc, really takes a few notches down for me. Otherwise it would be a near perfect MMO.

I went off rail.

My rig is quite strong so the only thing that frustrates me is the random fps dips/stutters that still happen, but that's not enough to kill my enjoyment. Then again, all aspects of the game are interesting to me so when Olms is break dancing again or Cyro is unplayable I furnish my houses or work on some small achievements (though I'm admittedly running out of solo achievs to do...).

Its not just performance...im getting so tired with the constant buffing and nerfing without any recognisable direction or end in sight....so tired